During his recent visit to New York City Ambassador Armando Varricchio sat with i-ItalyTV for a long conversation about his new job. We touched upon a number of topics, spanning from culture to technology to the new wave of Italians coming to the UStoday.
After days of being rocked by post-Brexit shock waves, the Italian stock market rebounded a percentage point more or less across the board. But the fact remains that the "Brexit" referendum vote has fallout effects that could become devastating for Italy.
Immerso nella grande bellezza di Roma, Bassetti-Gambedotti presentano il loro regno del made in Italy.
"I've lived with many Zen masters, all of them cats." –Eckhart Tolle
Beginning Saturday, June 25, New Yorkers and tourists alike will have the opportunity to experience Italy and immerse themselves in Italian beauty without ever leaving the U.S.
Italy lost its first match of the Euro Cup Wednesday to the Republic Ireland. Because Italy won their first two matches and already earned a spot in the knockout stage, they sat eight of their starters to rest for their upcoming match against Spain, while Ireland needed a win to keep their tournament hopes alive.
Ludovica Capobianco, Alessandro Facente, Veronica Santi and Giulia Trabaldo Togna came together to choose works whose focus was unified yet diverse
The fourth of Antonio Monda’s ten-volume New York saga has just been published in Italy. Based on a recurring cast of characters, each volume is set in a different decade of the 20th century. This last is set in the 1970s and it examines the complicated relationship between faith and guilt.
For four generations Gloria Porcella’s family has followed an artistic and cultural path in Rome. Here Gloria tells us a little about her cultured childhood, her subsequent career in Europe, and her decision to open the Ca’ d’Oro Art Gallery—founded by her father Antonio—also in Miami and New York.
Our cover story is about “Grandparents and Grandchildren in Italian America,” a series of conversations available this summer on TV and online at www.i-Italy.org.
How excited and proud all Sicilian Americans can feel about an international conference about Sicily being held at a crème de la crème Ivy League University (see: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/italians/event/2016/02/sicily-language-art-and-culture -- see PDF link at bottom). Not to mention that the same University of Pennsylvania offers a course in the Sicilian ‘Language’ (Not Dialect!!) (see: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/italians/pc/course/2015C/ITAL105). And ever so happily, it was not a conference about the Mafia.